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Hide Of The Mantids

The Warp to the next area is being blocked by a forcefield, and there are several gun emplacements that shoot purple energy at you. Overall, the best weapon to use in this level is the Plasma Rifle (then when you pick it up, the Firestorm Cannon), since it used Plasma Paks and almost every Drone and EVERY Solider drop extra ammo for you. Now, blow away the guns and an aclove will also be explosed (and a Drone will be let loose). Inside is a health/ammo cache that will respawn every few seconds. After all the guns are down, the Warp will accessible...if you can get past the five or so drones that have appeared. Take them out, then stock up on ammo and health, and step into the Warp. Be prepared for a very long level.

Go forward and blow up the twirling, blue cyndrical object, and a force field that was covering a hall (which is to the left) will be destroyed. Go through there to find a dead-end, with tons of enemies, and another similar object. Blow that up as well, and return to where you entered. Once you enter the room, just keep going straight and go through the tunnel with the many Silver Healths. Follow the path...jump on the platform to be raised to the upper area...follow some more...use Explosive Shells on these stupid creatures...here we go, a room with a tall platform in the center, with two guns on the ceiling. Take them out, then enter the hallway, stage right.

You'll find a single Drone guarding a strange, green object on the wall. This is a switch, touching it will activate the circular platforms in the previous room. Use them to retrieve the Key on the platform in the center. Activating the switch will also un-lock a previously locked door, you can tell which one it is because it has an Orange Health in front of it. Follow that path for about a minute or so and you'll hit a Warp with a circle of Silver Healths around it.

Open the door in front of you (just walk near it and it will open) and follow the path, then turn left, following the Golden Lift Force. Keep going and you'll be in a large room, and the majority of it is a bottomless pit! Collect the Flamethrower and head left and until you can't go any furthur. Use your Plasma Rifle's sniperscope to pick off two Drones in acloves to your right. Jump on the platform they were above, then continue jumping on platforms until you come to a locked door. Look above you, slightly behind, and down away, the gun on the ceiling. The door will now be open, head on in.

There are three doors here; north, east, and west, you came in through the south door. Go through the west door for some ammo, north to destroy a force field generator, and east to find an elevator-like contraption. Going up! Once at the top, enter the next room with caution as four guns on the ceiling have their sights pointed at YOU! Take them out, as well as the overweight whiner known as a Solider, which is on the other side of the room. Go through the door he was guarding and follow the hall for ahwile. Head left at the next room (it has an Orange Health in the center with four Red Life Force. Wait, there is no other direction To head.

Follow the hall and you will enter a room with a few buggies, kill them, and go through the door on the other side. Inside is a Solider guarding another green switch, it will activate a platform in the previous room, it will also let about four or five Mites out, so watch yourself. Step on the platform and it will whisk you away, up to a ledge. Hit the switch there to summon yet another elevator, which will carry you to a new hallway, high above. Follow the corridor and you will eventually spill out into a previously explored area...but not before collecting the Firestorm Cannon! Go out the door and turn left, going down the tunnel with the Red Life Force.

In the next room, quickly collect the Golden Health and be prepared for some bloodshed as Drones burst through the walls. After the party, continue through the halls. Continue...jump in the Warp surrounded by Silver Healths! Another, similar path, except this time the Drones don't burst through the walls, you can shoot them out. Keep going and you'll reach a circular room, in the center is a large structure with acloves, each aclove houses a large switch. Hit all the switches to activate an elevator, which will take you up to another hallway, naturally. Follow the long hallway, blasting the insectoids as you go. Nothing much to talk about here, really. Before jumping into the Warp, save your game at the Ship.

Follow the path, as before, then jump over the ledge to a platform before, and then down again, and through the door. In the next room, quickly destroy the four guns on the ceiling before they sap your health, then a door will open. Inside are two Drones and another twirly majig. Blow it up, then the previously locked doors will be open. One leads to a locked Warp Portal Machine, the other goes to an elevatar; take the latter.

Follow the hallway. About 10 minutes later you'll find the Proximity Fragmentation Mine (PFM) Layer. Use it to destroy the majority of the Mites below, then finish them off with the Flamethrower. All the doors will open, letting a Drone loose. Inside one of them is a Key, collect it. Blow away the fake walls in this room. Besides plenty of ammo, you'll find the switch that will open up the last Warp Portal Machine you saw...To get there, go straight ahead from this tunnel (or, left from where you dropped down from above) and follow the path. You'll be a bit of the way back, which will allow you to go into the Warp Portal Machine and collect the 5th Nuke Piece. Return to the Mite Room and go through the tunnel with a line of Blue Healths (or, straight ahead from where you dropped down). Follow the tunnel to a...Warp.

Follow the hall to a large room, then head left (which is the only way to go)...keep going. Kill the Drone across the chasm, then head left and defeat the Soldier there. MEMORIZE THIS LOCATION. Activate the switch behind him, then quickly go back to catch the platform that comes down. Next area, go forward and jump down to the ledge. Upon activating the switch in the seemingly empty room, the door will shut and dozens of Mites will flood into the room. Take care of them with your trusty War Blade, then exit and use the working platform to get to the above area. One of the tunnels will have a platform serving as a bridge to another tunnnel (left of where you just came in from now). Once there, you will discover several open doors, and a trail of Goldem Life Force leading into a wall, it's on the left side of the room from where you enter (at the very start is an orange circle machine in front of you). Even if you already collected the tokens, never fear, just go to the left side of the chamber and look at the central pedestal, you will notice part of the wall is different from the rest...shoot at it! Inside is a Soldier guarding a secret Twirly Majig, blast them both away. Go back outside and explore the open doors, one of them leads to a switch, activate it then kill the Workers that come in. Return to the crossroads area and you will find that a Drone has appeared, after dispatching him, go through the tunnel he was blocking to catch a newly activated platform. Collect the vomit inducing Cereboral Bore, then blow the wall to the left up, then follow the path. More following...now you're dropping down platforms and killing Drones in acloves, then you'lll receive the Sacred Eagle Feather. Oh, before doing this, you should have gone right and destroyed the eggs and activated the Warp Portal Machine...hehe. Anyways, drop down to the platform from the Eagle Feather ledge and keep running forward and you'll find a Warp...but before that, go back to where I told you to memorize and go through the passage there, it used to be covered in a force field. Once inside, you will find the Warp Portal Machine! Go inside and claim the Whispers Tailsman, then go through the Warp, from a few sentences back.

Go forward and kill all the Drones on the ledges, they are good targets for the Cereboral Bore...once they are all killed, two Soldiers will burst in. Kill them as well, then go to the next door. In the next area are several locked doors, and groups of Mites will scurry after you. On the other side is a door, go through it, kill the Drone across the way, and hop down into the water. Below you will find more than enough Red Life Force for two lives, and a secret tunnel that leads to a twirly thing, blow it away, get back to the above area via the elevator, and retrace your steps to the previous room, then go through the newly opened tunnel (head right). Follow it...wahahy! New area. Blow away all the twirly things to destroy the Master Forcefield. Now that's all done with, escape via the elevator (you'll collect the Scorpion Missile Launcher on the way up. Go to where the water is (all the Red Life Force) and go across. Once there, find the path that has platforms serving as a bridge, go across...Go right, and attempt to grab the key. Instead, a door will slam shut in your face and you'll fight two Drones and a Solider, then you can collect it. Retrace your steps to the previous room and continue. Continue...go through the Warp.

Follow the path and you will soon spot a Drone atop a strange piece of wall...climb it up and open the door, go right and go straight, blow the Drone to hell, climb the wall, go across the strange bridge, and through the door. Follow the path. At the end is a Warp.

Follow the path. You should now be standing in a circular room with a ton of large eggs. Clear out the area, first. The center platform will have some eggs blocking a tunnel. Inside is...a Queen Embyro! The best way to deal with the infinite amount of Drones that warp in is to freeze two with the Charge Dart Rifle, then no more will come. Quickly belt the Queen Embryo with whatever you got, then kill it when it drops out of the little sac. When it's dead you'll receive an Orange Health. Quickly run out of this room and look for another group of eggs blocking a tunnel, blow them to Hell and run. Right now there are about 50 Drones, 50 Mites, and one pissed off Solider following you. Keep running and you'll find a Warp.

Drop down into another Mite infested area, then climb the wall that a Soldier is guarding. Once at the top, go across the bridge (go right for a Ship so you can save) and turn left at the crossroad. Blow up the strange part of the wall and go in through the warp. In the next area you will find another Queen Room, with eggs everywhere. Like before, the Queen is in the center area. Use the same stragedy as before, then blow the second batch of eggs away to find a new area. Follow it to the end to find a Warp.

Now you're back on the same "strange bridge" as before. Go left and into the door. Drop into the water and swim down into a secret passage. Hop on the platforms and drop down into the area below. Now you must collect Satchel Charges, here are the locations of them:

1. Behind the pillar, near the start
2. Keep going and ignore the water pit. Behind a tree near the Exit to this level.
3. Ditto, except on the other side
4. Jump into the water pit and underneathe is a Warp. On the bridge you come to a is a Satchel Charge! Follow the bridge to another Warp.

Follow the path and you'll find yet another door. Go through and you'll find a big lava area. Jump down onto the platforms and climb them up, at the end are two Soldiers guarding a switch. Hit it, then go backwards to find a platform, use it to get to the above area. Hit both switches, then the door in-between them will open up. Now you must drop down into a muddy area and battle three Soldiers at once. The best way to take them down is to freeze them with the Charge Dart Rifle, then use the Cereboral Bore on them. Climb the wall on the other side...it's another Queen Hideout. You know what to do (objective A accomplished). Retrace your steps all the way back to where you found the first few Satchel Charges. Once there, exit, and you'll be back where you went underwater to find the area. Climb up the pillars (IGNORE THE LEAP OF FAITH TILE) and climb the wall where the Drone is, then kill the Soldier and hop in the Warp.

This is the Master Computer room...and it has about a lots of guns around it, so take them out. Put a Satchel Charge on each of the energy totem and then get away before it blows.

Now, go to the Leap of Faith, I told you to ignore. Use it to find a Golden Health up there. This will help you later...Remember Satchel Charge #'s two and three? Well, go back to where they were and go across the bridge, kill the Soldier, and hop into the exit Warp...Now you have to battle about 20 Drones at once to save the Energy Totem! Wipe them out and then you will fight the Mother of all Mantids...The Queen!

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